Spring Lake
Spring Lake is stocked little and often. In 2025 WDFW logged 11 release dates spread over 6 months, about 1,211 fish per release date, the first on Feb 28, 2025 and the last on Oct 10, 2025.
WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated .
Spring Lake in numbers
- catchable trout in 2025
- 13,323
- so far in 2026, through Oct 30
- 18,408
- 2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 14,948 a year
- −11%
2026 is running ahead of 2025: 18,408 fish through Oct 30, against 13,323 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 2,015 rainbow trout, went in on Oct 15, 2026, 21 days before this page was built.
WDFW lists Spring Lake as 4.4 acres in Columbia County, at 2,101 ft. Per acre, Spring Lake got about 3,028 catchable trout in 2025, which puts it 7th of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage.
Every release since January 2025
20 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.
Fish released each year
2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. The busiest full year was 2018, with 11 release dates and 19,991 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 11.7 release dates a year.
How big are these fish?
- 4 to 8 oz
- 31,046 fish, 98%
- 8 to 16 oz
- 325 fish, 1%
- 1 to 2 lb
- 360 fish, 1%
Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.
Notes from the records
The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 3,940 rainbow trout on Mar 30, 2026. The heaviest fish were 100 rainbow trout on Apr 3, 2025, at 0.7 per lb, about 1.4 lb each.
Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.
Closest waters on this site
Straight-line distance between the map points WDFW gives for each water, not driving distance.
Also in Columbia County: Blue Lake, Rainbow Lake, Watson Lake.